Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many incapacity benefit claimants are awaiting an assessment for employment and support allowance; and how many such claimants have waited three months or more for that assessment.

Information available on the number of Incapacity Benefit claimants currently awaiting a work capability assessment is published and can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/employment-and-support-allowance-outcomes-of-work-capability-assessment.

Official statistics for Incapacity Benefit Reassessment processing times are not readily available and to provide the information requested would incur disproportionate cost.